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This is the best reason I have read anywhere on DCUM for a reason to send a kid to academic tutoring (other than for needing extra help).  But it seems like there could be better activities to send them to rather than academic tutoring.  [b]Add'l sports, music, even volunteering?  [/b]

Actually, playing some video games (not violent ones) may help a kids' fine motor skills.  Not saying we should let kids play electronics all day, but that is one side benefit.  I think there was an article some time ago about how they found that surgeons and/or fighter pilots that played more computer games when they were yonger were better at some of the skills that required these types of motor skills.[/quote]

Totally true.  [b]IXL and Khan are cheap/free and don't require parents to drive[/b].  So this is the lazy parent method of occupying idle hands/minds.  They do sports and music.  I wholeheartedly agree that volunteering is a good use of time...just don't always have time to facilitate it (kids cannot drive yet).[/quote]

[b]Are these online tutoring?  OK, I admit, while I don't send my kids to after school tutoring, I do let them play math games and such online.  Does that count as after school tutoring?[/b][/quote]

Yes, this is enrichment. Why do you think your kid needs that? If they were smart and had raw talent they should learn everything they need to "automagically" at school.  I pity your child!  You are the worst kind of a Tiger mom! I bet they do not have a life outside of doing Math game online. Don't you think they should have unstructured time in their life? Their childhood is pitiful.  I bet they have a "dead look" in their eye from all that screen time![/quote]

Well, first of all, math online is about 10 to 15 min.  Secondly, I didn't sign DC up for anything. DC asked to do it. It was this vs. writing math facts on paper.  I let DC do it on the computer. So, DC does still have a lot unstructured time. Sometimes, DC chooses to read for an hour, sometimes DC goes out and plays.  DCs eyes are far from "dead".  They *sparkle*!

I take it you do put your kids in after-school tutoring, hence the sarcastic response(?).[/quote]

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